Publication
MARY TTS HMM-based voices for the Blizzard Challenge 2012
Marcela Charfuelan Oliva
In: Proceedings of Blizzard Challenge 2012. SynSIG Blizzard Challenge, September 14, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2012.
Abstract
This paper describes the first participation of MARY TTS
HMM-based voices in a Blizzard challenge. An architecture for
synthesis of expressive speech based on the MARY TTS system
and sentiment analysis of text is proposed. The creation of
several HMM-based voices in different styles using audiobook
data is described. Preliminary results on perception of different
voice styles and the appropriateness of a given style for a given
sentence are presented. The latest developments in the open
source MARY TTS 5.0 are briefly described.